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  EOUGH 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  DEKBYSHIEE 
  ORNITHOLOGY, 
  

  

  1902-1903. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Feancis 
  C. 
  R. 
  Jourdain, 
  M.A., 
  M.B.O.U. 
  

  

  1902. 
  

  

  These 
  notes 
  are 
  continued 
  from 
  'The 
  Zoologist,' 
  1902, 
  p. 
  459. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  H. 
  Walton 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  saw 
  a 
  male 
  Merlin, 
  

   recently 
  killed, 
  exposed 
  on 
  a 
  keeper's 
  gallows 
  at 
  Howden 
  on 
  

   June 
  21st, 
  which 
  looks 
  as 
  if 
  these 
  birds 
  had 
  again 
  attempted 
  to 
  

   breed 
  on 
  the 
  moors. 
  A 
  pair 
  of 
  Nightingales 
  also 
  bred 
  this 
  spring 
  

   near 
  Ockbrook 
  (W. 
  H. 
  Walton). 
  

  

  A 
  white 
  Rook 
  was 
  haunting 
  the 
  Egginton 
  district, 
  and 
  many 
  

   attempts 
  had 
  already 
  been 
  made 
  on 
  Oct. 
  6th 
  to 
  shoot 
  the 
  un- 
  

   fortunate 
  bird, 
  which 
  was 
  still 
  able 
  to 
  rise 
  from 
  the 
  ground 
  in 
  

   spite 
  of 
  a 
  broken 
  leg 
  (G. 
  Pullen). 
  A 
  Badger 
  was 
  picked 
  up 
  on 
  

   the 
  Great 
  Northern 
  line 
  near 
  Egginton, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  killed 
  

   by 
  a 
  passing 
  train, 
  and 
  others 
  were 
  seen 
  near 
  the 
  Fox-covert 
  (id.). 
  

   While 
  looking 
  at 
  a 
  young 
  Pheasant 
  in 
  my 
  garden 
  on 
  Nov. 
  6th, 
  I 
  

   was 
  astonished 
  to 
  see 
  a 
  second 
  bird 
  take 
  wing 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   chimneys 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  perched, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  third 
  from 
  the 
  

   lawn 
  ! 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  time 
  I 
  have 
  ever 
  seen 
  a 
  Pheasant 
  perch 
  

   on 
  a 
  building. 
  During 
  the 
  floods 
  in 
  the 
  Dove 
  Valley 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  November 
  many 
  Dippers 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  flying 
  high 
  in 
  the 
  

   direction 
  of 
  the 
  tributary 
  streams. 
  These 
  winter 
  floods 
  always 
  

   seem 
  to 
  drive 
  the 
  Dippers 
  from 
  the 
  river, 
  although 
  at 
  other 
  

   times 
  they 
  are 
  strictly 
  sedentary. 
  

  

  1903. 
  

   January 
  17th. 
  — 
  Flocks 
  of 
  Siskins 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  alders 
  at 
  

   Calwich. 
  On 
  the 
  26th 
  A. 
  S. 
  Hutchinson 
  received 
  a 
  fine 
  Brent, 
  a 
  

   solitary 
  bird 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  driven 
  inland 
  by 
  the 
  storms 
  of 
  mid- 
  

   January. 
  It 
  was 
  shot 
  on 
  the 
  river 
  near 
  Rocester, 
  and 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  

   definite 
  occurrence 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  county 
  for 
  seventeen 
  

   years 
  past. 
  A 
  male 
  Ruff 
  was 
  sent 
  in 
  for 
  preservation 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  